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“Too many people had refused when she had wished that they would beg her to stay, and now, because of them, she had let him go so easily, unclenching all her fingers at once.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“You don’t think these wars are for lucre? Yes, cultural norms and fads bring temporary progress here and there, but that’s not a change in human morality. Inside we are all exactly the same as we have ever been and will always be until we extinguish ourselves soon enough. To believe otherwise is just a story you tell yourself to sleep at night.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“I saw him as a circuit breaker; something that could put my big, unmeetable desires on pause. I had wanted to funnel all that wanting into him, into something that seemed manageable, immediate, tangible. I had hoped that falling in love would make all the disquiet go away.

And maybe it would have, for a while. But probably not forever.”
― Madeleine Gray, Green Dot

“Nothing important, just letting you know I won’t be there when you get home, thank you for the shape you took in my life but it’s over now, it doesn’t fit.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether